Instead, the local Sector Force simulated an Infiltrator deployment, by sending a spaceship into the atmosphere, which caught the attention of the Imperial sensor grid, and then deployed forty one-man gliders—a type of sports equipment that had been widely adapted by Rebel forces as a simple and inexpensive insertion vehicle.

Imperial scouts, venturing out into the desert and finding forty abandoned gliders, were left to conclude that the Rebels had deployed a platoon of their feared Infiltrators, with the ability to make a direct assault on the garrison base.

In fact, these gliders had merely been weighed down by ice, which had melted away in the desert heat by the time the Imperials arrived.